Shops Online have lots of interesting stuff and may help you to find things you want specifically that are not available in other shops. You may browse your shopping objective on different pages; this will take less time than you would spend looking in real shops.
This kind of shopping is really comfortable but may also have more risks than fiscal shops ofcourse. You don’t know who is behind your online shopping, not even if your shopping is real or just a fraud.
You could be victim of Troyans, phishing and SPAM because for online shopping you use many personal information.
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Safe online shopping By Giovanna Tomasi
Shops Online have lots of interesting stuff and may help you to find things you want specifically that are not available in other shops. You may browse your shopping objective on different pages; this will take less time than you would spend looking in real shops.
This kind of shopping is really comfortable but may also have more risks than fiscal shops ofcourse. You don’t know who is behind your online shopping, not even if your shopping is real or just a fraud.
You could be victim of Troyans, phishing and SPAM because for online shopping you use many personal information.
How can you make a safe online shopping?
© Always have actualized operating systems, browsers and other programs in your computer.
© Always have a good antivirus that includes antispyware updated and with a safe configuration
© Use firewalls; this will help unwanted connections. Non authorized users have more difficulties for having acces to your system through webb pages.
Firewalls help against troyans, backdoors and other malware that may manage your personal information.
© Never do shopping online in an unknown PC or opened WiFi, if you necesarly have to do so use the private Browsing option and after the use eliminate cookies and passwords.
© Use safe web pages that you or others you know already have use like eBay, Amazon, Mercado Libre and others. Always investigate before doing the shopping.
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Planning for e-commercehttp://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1075383789
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